Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, by Deborah Wiles, portrays that friendship should never be taken for granted. The time period was the 1960s, when slavery was stil in place. Joe, a white boy, and John Henry, a black boy, were best friends, but it affected most of the activities they do together. The way Joe thought about John Henry's skin color was 'brown butter', which illustrates that Joe does not care about John Henry's skin color. Most whites at that time would not even be friends with a black.